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gspr • today at 7:05 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I don't understand what you mean. Are you saying that products with open APIs are commoditized faster than ones without? Why would that be?


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chii • today at 7:10 AM

i think they meant the hardware becomes more fungible. This is what made IBM lose their competitive advantage when it came to PCs, because others were able to make IBM-compatible ones that are cheaper and still able to use the same old software.

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